LoJack® System Helps Greensboro Police Department Recover Stolen BMW 325Ci
- May 27, 2015
- recovery stories
The owners of a 2003 BMW 325Ci contacted the Greensboro Police Department to report that their vehicle was stolen from the parking lot of their apartment complex off Montcastle Drive. The BMW had been parked in the parking lot for several days due to one of the owners being hospitalized. The other spouse had spent the night at the hospital comforting the sick, only to return to the apartment to discover the BMW stolen.
The Greensboro PD verified the theft and entered the vehicle information into the state and federal crime computers which automatically activated the LoJack® System concealed in the BMW.
A short while later officers of the Greensboro PD, working in conjunction with LoJack, picked up the silent LoJack signal from the stolen BMW with the LoJack Police Tracking Computer (PTC) that are installed in law enforcement patrol vehicles and aircrafts. Following the directional and audible cues from the PTC, the officers were lead to the 500 Block of Penry Street in Greensboro. This location was a single family dwelling having a wooded area on three sides. Officers walked from the street curb, up a dirt path and to the rear of the dwelling and a storage building. In the woods, out of the site of passing motorist, officers located the stolen BMW 523Ci. At the BMW were several wheels and tires that had been removed from other vehicles.
No person(s) were found at the recovery site. The Greensboro PD continues an investigation into the residence ownership/occupant, other evidence at the recovery site and possible latent evidence of the BMW.
This was the second theft and tracked to recovery of this BMW in Greensboro, North Carolina in the past year and a half; each theft was a different owner/victim.
The LoJack® System was installed in the BMW 325Ci in April 2003 at Checkered Flag Porsche-BMW-Jag-Audi in Virginia Beach, Virginia.